Collaborative Research: Preparation of New Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Integrate Research and Undergraduate Education

这个在无机，生物无机和有机化学计划中的合作奖支持弗朗西斯马里恩大学的Leroy Peterson教授和南卡罗来纳州大学的Hanno zur Loye继续专注于两个耦合研究领域的研究：1）新配体的合成和将其引入新的混合金属有机/无机杂化材料中，以及2）基于多卤铋酸盐和多卤铅酸盐材料的新型异质金属半导体框架的研究。 本研究建立在制备金属-吡嗪羧酸配合物并将其用于制备有机/无机骨架材料的基础上。 吡嗪羧酸配体将用于制备含金属的几何结构单元，其可以是：a.）线性双齿，B.）B-bidentate和c.）T形三齿。 利用FMU的设备以及南加州大学的大型现代仪器（X射线衍射仪，TGA，DSC，质谱仪，SQUID和BET系统），FMU的学生研究人员和教师将充分表征他们的产品。zur Loye博士将在南加州大学进行设备培训和研讨会，将有机，无机和/或有机金属模块定向超分子组装成功能性固体这项工作的更广泛影响是推进代表性不足的少数民族和妇女的本科生研究，同时促进教学，培训和学习，为这些学生未来的研究生学习做好准备。合作涉及化学文化的培育在弗朗西斯玛丽安大学（FMU），将包括在当地和国家化学学会会议（海报和口头报告）的参与，一个FMU本科化学研讨会的发展，并通过创建一个现代材料表征设施的FMU研究基础设施的增强。

This collarorative award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometrallic Chemistry program supports Professors Leroy Peterson at Francis Marion University and Hanno zur Loye at the University of South Carolina to continue reserach focused on two coupled areas of research: 1) the synthesis of new ligands and their incorporation into new mixed-metal organic/inorganic hybrid materials and 2) the investigation of new heterometallic semiconducting frameworks based on polyhalobismuthate and polyhaloplumbate materials. The research builds on preparing metal-pyrazinecarboxylate complexes and using them in the preparation of organic/inorganic framework materials. Pyrazinecarboxylate ligands will be used to prepare metal-containing geometric building blocks that can be: a.) linear-bidentate, b.) bent-bidentate and c.) T-shaped-tridentate. Utilizing equipment at FMU as well as large-scale modern instruments (X-ray diffractometers, TGA, DSC, Mass Spectrometers, SQUID and BET systems) at USC, the student researchers and faculty at FMU will fully characterize their products. Equipment training and workshops will be conducted at USC by Dr. zur Loye on directed supramolecular assembly of organic, inorganic, and/or organometallic modules into functional solidsThe broader impacts of this work are to advance undergraduate research for underrepresented minorities and women, while promoting teaching, training and learning to prepare these students for future graduate studies. The collaboration involves the nurturing of a chemistry culture at Francis Marian University (FMU) that will include participation at local and national chemistry society meetings (poster and oral presentations), the development of an FMU undergraduate chemistry symposium, and the enhancement of the FMU research infrastructure via the creation of a modern materials characterization facility.